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THE BOOK OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOB</span>
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CHAPTER 30
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Job is derided by the children of vile and base men—In his afflicted state Job cries to the Lord—He says that he wept for those in trouble.
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But</span> now <i>they that are</i> younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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Yea, whereto <i>might</i> the strength of their hands <i>profit</i> me, in whom old age was perished?
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For want and famine <i>they were</i> solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots <i>for</i> their meat.
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They were driven forth from among <i>men,</i> (they cried after them as <i>after</i> a thief;)
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, <i>in</i> caves of the earth, and <i>in</i> the rocks.
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Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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<i>They were</i> children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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And now am I their <sup>a</sup><a href="job/30/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 69: 12.">song</a>, yea, I am their byword.
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They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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Because <sup>a</sup><a href="job/30/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR God.">he</a> hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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Upon <i>my</i> right <i>hand</i> rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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They came <i>upon me</i> as a wide breaking in <i>of waters:</i> in the desolation they rolled themselves <i>upon me.</i>
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Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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By the great force <i>of my disease</i> is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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I cry unto thee, and thou dost not <sup>a</sup><a href="job/30/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB answer.">hear</a> me: I stand up, and thou regardest me <i>not.</i>
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Thou art become <sup>a</sup><a href="job/30/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cruelty.">cruel</a> to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride <i>upon it,</i> and dissolvest my substance.
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For I know <i>that</i> thou wilt bring me <i>to</i> death, and <i>to</i> the house appointed for all living.
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Howbeit he will not stretch out <i>his</i> hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?  was <i>not</i> my soul grieved for the poor?
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When I looked for <sup>a</sup><a href="job/30/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 8: 15.">good</a>, then evil came <i>unto me:</i> and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, <i>and</i> I cried in the congregation.
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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to <sup>a</sup><a href="job/30/29a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB ostriches.">owls</a>.
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My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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My harp also is <i>turned</i> to mourning, and my <sup>a</sup><a href="job/30/31a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB pipe, flute.">organ</a> into the voice of them that weep.
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